vrijdag 23 augustus 2013

We often talk about empathy as an emotional virtue,

but it’s also an imaginative art.

Before I can empathize with you,

you have to become real to me.

I have to listen to you, I have to tell myself your story.

I have to imagine what it is like to be you with your illness

or your situation or your aspirations or whatever it is.

If you don’t have empathy,

other people might not exist for you.

- Rebecca Solnit -

http://www.adaptastraining.com/can-empathy-be-learned-one-to-consider-for-staff-training

My dad always used to say:

“If you’re falling off a cliff,
you may as well try to fly.
You have nothing to lose.”

- Captain John Sheridan -

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past

for any kind of situation we're in

and reverse our thinking

and see that the past always flows back form the present.

That now is the creative point of life.

So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody,

you change the meaning of the past by doing that...

Also watch the flow of music.

The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later.

Just as the meaning of a sentence...

you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...

The present is always changing the past.

- Allan Watts -

Je hebt geen relatie met je partner,

je hebt een relatie met het beeld

dat je van je partner hebt.

- Nin sheng -

www.inzicht-nu.nl

Bedankt Frieda !

http://pleasefeelbeautiful.tumblr.com/image/59066024578

"It ain't over till it's over."

Yogi Berra

donderdag 22 augustus 2013

OVERWINNEN

- Karin Spaink -

NOT KNOWING

how would it be to allow for knowing
and not knowing:
allowing room
for the mystery
of creating
to be able to wonder
softly
without needing to understand everything
to trust in the process
to trust in love
to trust in the mystery and wonder
of the universe
that beats softly wildly
true
all round about us,
that is hidden
in the mists
in the clouds and the rain
in the wind blowing and the rain lashing down on your window,
reminding you
poetically
prosaically
that this is where you are,
on the island,
at the edge,
in a place of finding
and refinding,
and remembering
to remember
the feel of the mist, wind and rain.

- John O’Donohue -